CVE-2016-6262: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 6.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

idn in libidn before 1.33 might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive memory information by reading a zero byte as input, which triggers an out-of-bounds read, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8948.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only
• GNU Libidn: up to and including 1.32
• Opensuse Leap: version 42.1 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.2 only

Published 2016-09-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.